Study: Content theft ‘big business’

Content theft sites made nearly a quarter of a billion dollars last year from advertising on rip-off sites, according to a new report – Good Money Gone Bad: Digital Thieves and the Hijacking of the Online Ad Business – from the Digital Citizens Alliance, a consumer-oriented coalition focused on educating the public and policy makers on the threats that consumers face on the Internet. According to the study, the 30 largest sites that profit exclusively from advertising dollars by pushing stolen movies, music, and television programmes will each make more than

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